fábulas sustentáveis

A paper recently published in the journal Nature Communications , show the annual catches between 1950 and 2010 were much bigger than thought, but that the decline after the peak year of 1996 was much faster than official figures: Fisheries data assembled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggest that global marine fisheries catches increased to 86 million tonnes in 1996, then slightly declined.  Here, using a decade-long multinational ‘catch reconstruction’ project covering the Exclusive Economic Zones of the world’s maritime countries and the High Seas from 1950 to 2010, and accounting for all fisheries, we identify catch trajectories differing considerably from the national data submitted to the FAO.  We suggest that catch actually peaked at 130 million tonnes, and has been declining much more strongly since.  This decline in reconstructed catches reflects declines in industrial catches and to a smaller extent declining discards, despite industrial fishing having e

Here we are in 2016. There is no doubt so I must accept and look back. In 2015 I published the last paper from the PhD thesis, settle down in Lisbon in a new home near by the sea, swam in the other side of the Atlantic; dived in a tropical reef for the first time and saw turtles and a shark (whatever...I still struggle to look cool underwater); went hiking a few days with friends in Gerês; enjoyed the summer in Portugal with friends (I missed the Portuguese late hot summer evenings!); I was offered the best bike I ever had (and for the first time in first hand); I went to Norway and dived in clear water between laminaria, monkfish, scallops and vikings (tough people that are afraid of eating proper fish); work was under control (maybe too much for my expectations); felt again at home in Göteborg (I wish I could live in two places at the same time); running and practice yoga was almost a routine (it is always good to have space to improve :D); had tried freediving; had spent as much t